This is essentially retrograde amnesia but it does not appear to depend upon an actual brain disorder, past or present.
For all other indicators of long-standing psychiatric problems (previous suicide attempts, bipolar disorder, past depressive episodes) and of severity of the episode (CGI score) groups did not differ clearly.
Specifically, individuals were precluded from study entry if they had a history of neurological disorders (e.g., dementia, stroke, multiple sclerosis, etc)., head injury with >10 minutes loss of consciousness, severe psychiatric disorder (e.g. schizophrenia, bipolar disorder), past or current substance abuse/dependence, and renal failure.
Rates of past history of alcohol use disorders, past history of drug use disorders, and lifetime anxiety disorders (obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder with or without agoraphobia, social phobia, specific phobia, agoraphobia without panic) were 36%, 17%, and 20%, respectively, in the BD group.
Firstly, the study population is unlikely to be representative of the general population due to higher rates of eating disorders, past experience of weight loss attempts and differences in motivation to lose weight (10).
Basic data included, but were not limited to, information related to comorbid psychiatric diagnostic status, family history for psychiatric disorders, past and current substance abuse, stress, and legal issues, etc.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder patients were screened by a psychiatrist using an extended clinical interview to ensure they met the DSM-IV-Text Revision criteria for OCD, exceeding 12 on the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) (13), and had no comorbid psychiatric disorders, past or present.
The analytic variable 'maternal medical condition' included ICD-10 coded conditions known to be risk factors for severe maternal morbidity 4 13–15 such as cardiac disease, pre-existing diabetes, epilepsy, essential hypertension, haematological disorders, past thrombotic event (deep vein thrombosis, stroke, pulmonary embolism) and severe mental illness.
She denied constitutional symptoms, features suggestive of connective tissue disorder and past history of miscarriages or thromboembolic diseases.
2 participants had mixed anxiety and depressive disorder and past histories of depression.
Exclusion criteria: concurrent major depression, psychosis or other neurological disorder; and past history of neurological disorder, stroke or brain injury.
